Working Assumptions Project Grants
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• Working Assumptions
• Deadline: June 1st, 2026
• Category: Visual Storytelling
• Prize: 6 x $10,000 Project Grants
• Entry Fees: Free
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Each year, Working Assumptions awards six unrestricted Project Grants of $10,000 to support visual storytelling projects that encourage deeper and more nuanced conversations about family, relationships, and human connection. Through this initiative, the organization seeks to champion photographers and artists whose work expands the ways we understand the evolving meaning of family across cultures, communities, and lived experiences.
We welcome proposals from a broad range of practices that incorporate photography or photo-based art as a central component of the project. Applications may explore journalistic, documentary, artistic, therapeutic, educational, or research-based approaches, reflecting the many ways visual storytelling can engage audiences and create meaningful social dialogue. Whether the work is deeply personal, socially engaged, experimental, or community-centered, we are interested in projects that challenge assumptions, foster empathy, and invite new perspectives on contemporary family life.
A key aspect of the Project Grant is its unrestricted funding model. Recipients are given complete creative and financial flexibility, allowing them to determine how best to support and develop their work according to the needs of the project itself. The grant may be used for research, travel, production, collaboration, materials, editing, or any other expenses connected to the realization of the project. The only requirement is that the work is intended for public engagement and that the project has already begun prior to the application deadline.
By supporting artists and storytellers at different stages of their creative process, Working Assumptions aims to foster thoughtful and impactful projects that resonate with audiences while expanding conversations around identity, care, intimacy, and the many forms family can take today.